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Pop-up boxes are created through JavaScript and are usually associated with porn and warez sites. .net sites also have a tendency for pop-up boxes. Basically there are programs that will stop pop-up boxes for you. Im going to get a link for you soon.

Its nothin to do with ports etc, its just a feature of web design, an annoying one at that. The reason they pop-up after a while is as in JavaScript the site's designer can make it appear at regular intervals or spaced times and s on.

I have a neat program InterMute you can use that will take care of those pesky pop-ups for good. You can get the demo at www.download.com . As soon as I got the demo, I was addicted. It can filter pop-ups, ads, auto-refresh, cookies, animations, java, java applets, referrers, background images, and background music. It's really cool.

Unless you downloaded some sort of weird ad-banner software or something... I would have to say that it's a webpage thing. Personally, I would recommend the Proxomitron, since it can deal with a huge variety of things, from cookies to headers to banners to popups... so you don't need ten seperate tools.

many popups r cookie-controllled (or script-controlled) so if u didn't remove all cookies before u installed zone alarm it won't filter it because it's comming for ur puter.... try and delete all ur cookies and perhaps tighten ur cookie-security in ie... i often get stupid popups but they all stop once i remove the cookies.
(also check in the tmp internet files for more annoying cookies and scripts)....